![]() ![]() This original version of the cover was swapped for the wet plastic bag cover just prior to release, mainly due to the fact that Jon Bon Jovi hated the pink edging to the cover. The band came up with the album title “ Slippery When Wet after visiting strip clubs in Vancouver.” WK In addition, “the album originally was to feature a busty, 34DD woman in a wet yellow tee shirt with the album name on the front of the shirt. However, by the time “Prayer” became the band’s second #1 song in February 1987, the album returned to the top as well – for an additional seven weeks.īon Jovi may have “had little more on their minds than girls and rock-as-mythology (even the working-class anthem ‘Livin’ on a Prayer’ featured a character who was forced to hock his ‘six string’), but that may only mean they had identified their audience – young white adolescent males – and were targeting it accurately.” WR “From the scantily clad car-wash girls on the inner sleeve to the ‘You lost more than that in my back seat / Yeah!’ lyrics, the album is blissfully untouched by irony and subtlety, which actually adds to its charm.” RDĮven the album title betrays the band’s aim at hormonal youth males. After that album’s month-long stay on top, Bruce Springsteen grabbed the gold for seven weeks with his Live 1975-1975 box set. ![]() It abdicated the throne to Boston’s Third Stage the next week. Collaboration with an outside professional songwriter worked: two of those songs were #1 hits and the band went “from minor-league poodle rockers to global superstars” RDĪs “Name” was still climbing the charts, Wet found itself at #1 on the album chart. WK “The group wrote 30 songs and auditioned them for local New Jersey and New York teenagers.” WK While most of the album was written by Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora, Desmond Child lent his talents to You Give Love a Bad Name, Livin’ on a Prayer, and Without Love. It looked like Bon Jovi could well become an also-ran that would be lucky to be remembered beyond the ‘80s. However, the handful of singles which followed over the rest of that album and the next came and went with much less fanfare. Their debut chart single, “Runaway”, cracked the top 40 on the pop charts and went top 5 at rock radio. David Bryan (keyboards, backing vocals)Ĥ.165 out of 5.00 (average of 26 ratings)īon Jovi hit the rock scene in 1984.Tico Torres (drums, percussion, backing vocals).Richie Sambora (guitar, harmony and backing vocals).You Give Love a Bad Name (8/9/86, 1 US, 14 UK, 9 AR).Song Title (date of single release, chart peaks) Sales (in millions): 12.0 US, 1.0 UK, 28.0 world (includes US and UK) ![]()
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